Actually, we lose whenever we think the abbreviated map we have is significantly closer to the territory than it actually is, because then we have less motivation to look at the territory.

One reason that marketers sometimes make a point of listing all the things their product is not, is specifically to overcome people's default setting of "I already know what that is" and "A friend of mine already tried something vaguely resembling that and it didn't work".

So, attempting to summarize difficult-to-accurately-summarize things isn't necessarily doing anyone a service.